"I'm happy it's over," Lidsky said. "I'm saddened that it had to go as far as it did. It's very tough for a 7-year-old to understand why people would do something like that. She's cried nightly."

Since news hit last week about the town's order nearly 4,400 people have signed an online petition on change.org urging the town not to force the family to give up the rabbit. Freda says the old ordinance was put into place 50 years ago when the community was largely farm related. It was designed to prevent people from raising and selling animals.